Infinity Mirror Room—Phalli’s Field

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Infinity Mirror Room—Phalli's Field is an installation by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. Created in 1965, it is one of her earliest "infinity installations" and a precursor to her later mirrored rooms. The work features a mirrored room filled with hundreds of stuffed phallic objects, painted with red dots, which Kusama used to explore themes of sexual anxiety.12

Kusama is renowned for her obsessive use of polka dots and her immersive infinity installations, which often create a sense of endless repetition and hypnotic sensation for the viewer. Her art spans various mediums, including painting, sculpture, and performance art, and is influenced by her childhood hallucinations of fields of dots.2

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Installations from that time included Infinity Mirror Room—Phalli’s Field (1965), a mirrored room whose floors were covered with hundreds of stuffed phalli that had been painted with red dots. Mirrors gave her the opportunity to create infinite planes in her installations, and she would continue to use them in later…
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Installations from that time included Infinity Mirror Room—Phalli’s Field (1965), a mirrored room whose floors were covered with hundreds of stuffed phalli that had been painted with red dots. Mirrors gave her the opportunity to create infinite planes in her installations, and she would continue to use them in later…
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